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>> BSD users treated updates like going to the dentist and put them off until forced
> Not typical of any BSD sysadmin I've known, ever. OTOH if your "BSD users" were not sysadmins that would explain it.

Professional sysadmins - but obviously more conservative than ones you know. That was the base install, a ton of ports and mucking around getting video drivers, etc. installed. This is for a fully-configured scientific workstation, not just a bare OS install, so there were a couple hundred packages installed by the time you include all of the various dependencies.

I'm certain that binary packages would have shaved a lot of time off of this (that's what I used to use on OpenBSD a decade ago) but that wasn't exactly strongly recommended at the time, which is why I mentioned culture — I'm certain you can manage FreeBSD better but in practice I have yet to meet anyone in person who actually does this. Small sample size and all but this is untrue of any Linux user I've met other than the Gentoo fanatics who consider tweaking CFLAGS a source of entertainment.

> A) the ports system works across _all_ versions and architectures i.e., you don't have to upgrade the entire OS simply to upgrade say mysql to 5.5, B) OS upgrades break far fewer apps in BSD than any version of Linux,

A) is comically untrue: not only can you easily compile newer packages but extensive backports repositories exist to make it easy and safe to install a new version of something important while keeping the rest of the system stable. For many distributions this exists as a vendor-provided service and there are others (e.g. IUSCommunity.org) which serve particular markets and a fair number of OSS projects maintain repos for the Debian & Red Hat worlds.

B) may be true in your experience but it's radically unlike mine. I've run many versions of Linux on many systems over the years and upgrades have been quite smooth - the Debian / Ubuntu world is the most stable but Red Hat isn't far behind. The key again is binary packages - moving from a known set of packages to a known set of newer packages makes it a lot easier to test an upgrade.

> C) kernel vulnerabilities average once every few years in BSD vs ever few weeks (sometimes days) in Linux

Highly debatable but Linux or BSD kernel vulnerabilities are rare enough not to be worth arguing over: most of the threat is in userland, which is a large part of why package management is so important. Far more systems are compromised by lax updates rather than zero-days.
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Predicting the next HN front page article in the near future: "Show HN: weekend project - open source Google's conway's game of life"
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Thanks. I added docx and pptx inputs to the todo list. I'll have to look into how to parse them into HTML.
You may be talking about people who confuse 'aggressive' with 'assertive', which would apply to either gender.
Shinichi Mochizuki (A Japanese mathematician) may have proven the ABC Conjecture
Awesome concept and idea! I hope you succeed so the bad suppliers lose business and the small business owners win.

We are working on solving the same problem with Tradesparency.com, but we are taking a different approach.

Good luck!
+1 for immediately thinking the same thing
I guess we just interpret it differently. I don't ascribe "greatness" to merely ideas or potential. Execution or application has to follow.

A great idea killed by a BigCo bureaucracy is like a talented athlete who is injured before his/her pro career even starts. All the talent in the world will never put such a person in the record books or hall of fame.
All of my friends had AIM as well. But that was not true of people even five years older. All of those things that you pointed out existed, but they were not the kind of assumption that Facebook is now. Web-based social sites starting with Friendster, then MySpace, and now with Facebook opened up online interactions to most people in the Western world, as opposed to the geeks, or family members of geeks, or the young, or people with special interests.

The point is not that people were not social on the web before. The point is that many, many more people are social on the web now, and that it's becoming an assumption of society. And from what I have witnessed, this is clearly a result of social networking sites.
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>Basically, my impression of Asperger's sufferers is that they lack the social insight and intuition to succeed in the real world.

Or, phrased a different way, they seem to be incapable (or uninterested in) tricking and manipulating their fellow man simply for their own benefit, regardless of the detriment to others.

>They do okay in carefully-constructed bubbles with interesting non-human toys and machines to play with.

Or phrased a different way, they help mankind progress by focusing on the physical world, solving problems and creating tools... rather than attempting to gain benefits for themselves by manipulating and suckering other humans in a series of "con artist" games.

>But they can't cope with normal human beings.

Or, again viewed from a different angle -- they have difficulty dealing with (to them) unpredictable,lying, manipulative, socio-parasitic people.

>Additionally, your characterisation of normal human beings as too dumb and clueless to resist mindless games is... rather crude I think. You sound bitter.

Or there is the possibility of the opposite view -- that it is YOU who are more than a bit 'bitter' -- technology is largely a black-box puzzle to you, so you allow others to deal with it, and instead concentrate on parasitic (people manipulation) means of satisfying your needs and wants.

And then you justify this by denigrating those who deal with (and advance) technology in ways that you cannot.
So where do coffee, espresso, & teas (black, green) fit into his Harm Matrix?
Search "number of horns on a unicorn", it gives a google calculator result of 1.
I'm talking trends, not individuals.
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I'd think any good "eastern" teacher would be sure to emphasize both the cultivation of wholesome mental qualities and the realization of not-self in meditation, depending on the audience and the context.
coreutils is great if you're looking to buff up your c skills. http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/, just was looking over remove_suffix inside basename.c today actually.
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The fatal flaw both in a "chief culture officer" and a "chief dissent officer" is the assumption that this is one person's job, who sits on high, vs. being _everyone's_ job.

A job title with "culture" in it doth not a culture make.
As he always stated when asked about whether the names he gave his kids caused any issues: "Its their last name that gets them into trouble".

<3 FZ.
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It's harder than it sounds. Your subconscious will continually try to interrupt your mindfulness of the dish washing. The main trick of meditation is to be able to gently push those idle thoughts away and refocus on the dish washing (or whatever it is you are meditating on). Even if you don't end up enjoying dish washing more, meditating like this is an excellent workout for your focus and concentration and can be a real stress reliever as well.
For some of us, somewhere between twelve and adult we realized that to communicate with most other people we had to talk like twelve year olds. After all, using big words & words others don't know confuses and angers people. (IME at least)
Excellent point! Be-in-present is the essence of some sects of Zen, especially in Japanese Zen. Sweeping the yard is not only to clean the yard. It is a practice, a meditation, to sweep the distracted thought of one's brain. Same as arranging flowers, etc. In this sense, it is the same as any other everyday manual work, like washing dishes, walking, etc.
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This is the plan I want github to offer:

For 5(or 7) bucks, unlimited private repos, with no(or 1) collaboration
I would argue it wouldn't help that much, because the rest of the group would quickly start ignoring the designated devil's advocate's feedback. "Oh, don't mind him, he's just saying that because it's his job."

Not that they wouldn't sit there and politely listen, of course (especially if he's a C-level exec), but unless he had some actual authority over the people he's advising they're not likely to think about what they hear.
The two examples at the end of my earlier comment inadvertently illustrated a point several others have made: there is no one single standard for how to capitalize a title.

Specifically, I didn't capitalize "are", but the page I linked to says you should capitalize "Are". So using their style (which is probably what I'd use too if I'd been paying more attention), my examples would be:

Sticky Notes Are Catching On

Sticky Notes Are Catching on Tables

Either way would be correct under one style guide or another. Wikipedia has a chart comparing various title case styles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_public... (edit: stordoff posted this earlier)

Here's an interesting article on About.com:

http://grammar.about.com/od/tz/g/Title-Case.htm

And an online title case converter (with its own set of rules):

http://individed.com/code/to-title-case/

As I mentioned, this search will tell you more than you ever wanted to know on the topic:

https://www.google.com/search?q=title+case
I've thought about offering devil's advocate consulting services for a while. Not sure how popular this sort of thing would actually be though, because in general people don't like being told they're wrong even if it benefits them.
This article is a great troll that purposefully ignores the work behind GitHub, the value it provides, and how it changed the code hosting landscape.

I regret feeding the troll.
Why would you not punish people for late payment?
The author appears to have awoken from this binary worldview. He didn't realize that there were other services out there beyond github and sourceforge. Kind of like people who don't know that there are browsers other than Internet Explorer or Chrome.

In the case of source hosting, bitbucket turns out to be pretty great! So it's natural that someone who's just discovered it will be pretty enthusiastic about jumping over to it.

What's baffled me over the years is how bad bitbucket is about marketing themselves. It's been improved somewhat by the Atlassian purchase, but still, they are totally underperforming their potential.
Peter, aren't you exactly the type of man for this job? =)
Parent has read "Miracle of Mindfulness," by Thich Nhat Hanh. He explains,

> If we can't wash the dishes, the chances are we won't be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus we are sucked away into the future - and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.
Looks like we're missing it :( Bummer.
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Wouldn't a good idea that's killed by BigCo still count as "not shipped"?

No matter how good it could've been, it still wasn't shipped.
"To mitigate the effects of pop consumption, only consume it with meals. Brush soon after eating or drinking anything besides water (including milk or juices)."

Brushing soon after drinking or eating something sugary is not a good idea. Best to wait around 30 minutes and let your body clean your teeth during that time, after the 30 minutes manually clean!

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/really-never-brush-...

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Wellness/Brushin...
That analogy doesn't work.

Meditations influence is covered in depth in The Willpower Instinct, but here's a short summary.

""Meditation requires you to tap all the self-regulation systems in your brain as well as the self-monitoring mechanism," says Kelly McGonigal, PhD, a health psychologist at Stanford University and author of the forthcoming The Willpower Instinct. Every time you meditate, you use two important parts of your brain: the prefrontal cortex, which helps you make smart choices, and the anterior cingulate cortex, which helps you be aware of when you make such choices and when you don't. The more you activate these systems, the more powerful they become, so in the future it will feel easier to do the right thing. "Eventually you will start to notice whenever you are doing something that is inconsistent with your goals," McGonigal says."
Exactly, hence the problem with allowing babies to sleep with a bottle. It's not the milk in the bottle that does the harm, it's the uneven saliva exposure in the mouth.

In general, people with good salivary coverage get less tooth decay. People with dry mouths, for whatever reason, get more. This isn't exactly an avant garde research topic.

While the dentist has impeccable credentials, she seems too reliant on anecdotes and personal observations, and insufficiently rigorous (to put it mildly) in justifying the mathematical model she proposes. The reasoning in this article is a little better than the old science-fair standby of dropping a tooth in a glass of Coke and gasping with horror when it's gone a week later, but not much.
A practical question about emacs would be on topic on unix.stackexchange.com or superuser.com.
Here is a CoffeeScript implementation of Hashlife

https://github.com/raganwald/cafeaulife
Can you share the story of how you came to work with him? I for one would be interested to hear it.

I laughed out loud at his new church idea.
> "you become one with the reality, or you transcend that favorite activity by merging your self into it. That moment of transcendence is meditation"

I think this is a really interesting takeaway. I'd like to propose another type of activity which I think most people probably wouldn't group together with meditation: video games.

If you're an avid gamer, you'll know where I'm coming from. Whether you're playing an MMO or an immersive story-based game, or even a competitive real-time strategy game, you're well-versed in the feeling of being hyper-focused and "becoming one" with the reality in front of you. I rarely find my thoughts wandering while playing a game because there simply isn't an opportunity to let my brain drift this way, especially if it's a multiplayer game (think StarCraft II, for example).

Video games are, at least for me, an activity that allows me to be in complete awareness and be in the moment, at that helps me relax. Any time I get ridiculed for playing video games as an adult, this is my default explanation.
There's definitely evidence that meditation alters your brain in positive ways [1]. The phrase "impulse control" isn't used in the list of benefits, but they list improvements in traits I'd associate with impulse control, e.g. increased self-awareness and reduced anxiety.

[1] http://www.familyhealthguide.co.uk/mindfulness-meditation-le...
> that it's becoming an assumption of society.

It was an assumption of general online society in the 90s, as near as I can remember.
I am from Atlanta and I dont even know most of the startups around here.

Seems like there might be a need for the startup map.
>I can't help but wonder that the future might not actually belong to neurotypicals. That, perhaps, the Aspie mutation might be better adapted to a world that is becoming more and more computerized and less and less hospitable to neurotypicals.

This will ENTIRELY depend on who out-reproduces the other.

>Neurotypicals seem to think Aspies have "anti-social" lives, but those I've met seem pretty happy.

But not necessarily reproductively successful.

>When will a critical mass of Aspies exist, or the world become hospitable to them despite not having to pretend to be neurotypicals?

Quite probably the opposite will happen (has happened, and is happening).

In a very ironic/paradoxical sense, it is the "Aspies" (people who have historically "obsessed" over machinery, technology and the physical world -- to the detriment of their own sexual reproduction) who have enabled the technophobes to successfully increase in numbers far beyond what they were capable of before. When human reproductive choices were far more limited (because travel was limited, total number of human interactions were limited, technology spread/scaling was limited, etc) then the anti-social (a-social? under-social?) Aspie types still had a chance to reproduce in sufficient numbers such as to pass on their genes. In addition, at previous levels of technology access to information/tools essentially required interaction with other human beings (to a far larger degree than with current technology).

The modern world -- with everything from antibiotics to automobiles & jet airplanes -- has led to humans having wider circles, to the greater marginalization of Aspie types; and recent technology (especially the internet) has facilitated a self-withdrawal of more and more Aspies; such that more and more of them are likely to be genetic dead-ends.

Ergo the chances of Aspies reaching some "critical mass" is not only highly unlikely, it is improbable.
> Django's a huge, monolithic framework

I'd like that misconception to finally be dispelled. In spite of being installed as an apparently single entity, Django is modular. You can use SQLAlchemy and Jinja2 with Django, and you can use Django's ORM all by itself, or its templating system standalone. You can use Django without manage.py, and while the only actual requirement is settings.py, that is in the process of being done with.
This is called competition.

Because of that work, Github changed the code hosting space, and they enjoyed their time(when they offered more). Now there is virtually no difference between github and bitbucket. Competition is always good, and it drives value to consumer.
It’s not temporary. It’s a lifestyle change.
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This reminds me of the so-called Tiger Mother. Someone who reinforces the prevailing beliefs but claims credibility due to their status as a member of the group in situ.

I suspect the author is actually a male graduate student in the UK.
The presentation linked at the bottom , http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2012kul/materials/D1T1... contains hints of numerous holes they've found in various networks, to among other things get access to an SS7 network.
He wouldn't give me any specifics at all, but I can tell you that the challenge was related to the extremely low tolerance for lag on a search result page that's treated as law company-wide. He had to do it without slowing down the search page AT ALL, for anybody. Check it out; it even works on mobile.
Part of the issue is that they historically were a mercurial hosting shop, so it's not like they were a direct replacement for Github. It was only in the last year or so that they added git support.
Maybe I'm way off here but I was under the impression:

Size of screen != # of pixels on that screen

Shouldn't the article talk about that? A Retina Mac's screen may not be as large as a 21 inch screen, however it probably has more pixels.
That's awfully dogmatic of you. Why can't people have different goals for meditating?

Speaking of running... same thing... people can run for different reasons. Certainly long distance running is great if your goal is to increase your willpower, but its also great if your goals is to increase your physical endurance or if your goals is simply to be able to run really far.
You make me a bit jealous, rubbing shoulders with Conway and Gosper. Martin Gardner's October 1970 column in SciAm introduced me to cellular automata, and I spent a few hours meticulously tracking generations on a checkerboard before it occurred to me that the university's IBM 1130 was probably better than I was at that sort of thing. Soon friends and I were writing competing Fortran programs for that 1130, monopolizing it all night every night, calculating Life.

I corresponded with Gardner once or twice, and subscribed to Robert T. Wainwright's Lifeline newsletter, which had begun a taxonomy of Life objects and reported community progress. Our little group was surprisingly competitive in the beginning, considering the limited resources at our backwater university, but when the MIT group kicked into high gear the exploits of Gosper, Woods and others at MIT were simply mind blowing. Woods' Atavist backtracker, Gosper's Glider Gun, the first discovery of a Garden-of-Eden configuration... who could compete with that? And Gosper continued to amaze with his astonishing Breeder.

Conway's GoL inspired other acquaintances, electrical engineers. One of them built a special-purpose computer to compute generations; he'd have surprised to know then that the computer was Turing-complete. Another EE pal built a crude raster display for the lab's Nova 1220 mini, with the specific intent to display GoL generations. Hardly such a thing as glass TTYs in those days, kids.

Sorry for the free-association; you know how old guys get. Think I've still got my old stack of Lifelines around, stored in the garage. Maybe I'll haul 'em out like an old yearbook, and see how they go with a Stone Levitation.
Someone correct me if this is wrong but I think Dylan's Infidels was the first digitally recorded LP. I should probably Google it. Anyway, that was released in 1983, the same year as Zappa wrote this.
That's it. You are in meditation when you're playing video games. I believe you should just find more of those same opportunities when you are not playing video games (because you can't really play video games 24x7).
I moved to bitbucket to get exactly that, but for free.
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Thank you, my example of washing dishes indeed came from Thich Nhat Hanh.
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"Step into my office" "Why?" "Cuz you're fuckin fired!"
It's not really true that all techniques perform fine if you're rendering just one button.

If you're using a masked CALayer, and that layer's in a scroll view or is otherwise animating around the screen, there's a very real chance that you'll drop frames, just from that layer's off-screen rendering pass. Depends on how big the button is.

Certainly, though, if you need parameterizable imagery, you need parameterizable imagery, and so you can't load them from disk. But you can still make your runtime-generated images resizable!
Yup, disable comments and disable ratings because you can't handle criticism.
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No, "really", you're comparing typing style to issues of morality.
Thanks for the joke!

I appreciate your comments. I like the idea of option number two, because it still gets to the end goal--a sale. It'd be a bigger project than I want to take on, though.

Option number three gauges interest in a scientific manner, but assumes that interest is a valid proxy for the end goal of a sale. I'm not sure how true that assumption is.

I've window shopped homes that I had no intention (nor capability) of buying. My employer one had a record day because one of the homes on the site was a football player's and had gotten mentioned in an ESPN blog. In both cases, interest was only vaguely related to purchase capability.

Testing all the way to the end of the funnel (home sale) is key, and difficult.
"Meditation in action" is usually supported by "sitting meditation" like the author in the link above suggests.

In my own practice, I've noticed that when I skip sitting meditations, my attempts at staying aware through out the daily activities is harder than usual.